How did overwatch seemingly die overnight?

Cooldown shooters should've never existed anyway. Fucking infinite ammo too.

terrible balancing followed by politics pushing

>view bots

proof?

Tf2 still alive and probably whit more players than cancerwatch

It didn't die overnight. It's been months since there aren't new players. They are surviving on the Overwatch League and smurf accounts. And people get smurf accounts because the ranked system is fucking trash. And a big part of ranked being trash is because characters either deal way too much damage or do way too much healing. And it's been like this pretty much since launch.

So yeah, it didn't die overnight. People got tired of waiting Blizzard to do something and jumped off the sinking ship as soon as a better/cheaper alternative appeared.

They added Ana. Ana had an incredible amount of burst heal as well as being a sniper who could delete people. So they buffed Mercy and the other healers to make them more competitive supports.

Mercy became incredibly overpowered, now you have two absolute must pick supports with crazy healing, this means tanks just can't die. Dive meta and ult economy become big deals. The high mobility heroes like Tracer and Genji are the only ones who can break through by assassinating the healers. This persists for an entire season.

Then they add Brigitte to counter them, except she is completely unbalanced and counters everyone not just those two. This again persists for an entire season.

Mercy gets reworked, tanks get nerfed, Brig gets nerfed. Now Tracer and Genji reign supreme every game, burst meta and ult economy never fixed. But the damage is already done and they did very little to fix it for years and years. Everyone is sick of this shitty meta with fixed comps and boring conservative playstyles and "press Q to win" battles.

Meanwhile they start banning people for using off-meta picks or just talking to each other.

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Mostly due to Battle Royales.

It was the game to copy for a while and devs would have continued to make their "inspired" version of it, but battle royals became the one to rip off.

There are a lot of players that just play whatever is popular.

Not him, but they do give out skins for AFKing while watching OWL. So basically bots, no one actually cares

because pic related

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>they start banning people for using off-meta picks

you mean people get reported for those in game?

>people really think this
its been 3 years and i still get a match in ranked and quickmatch fairly quick (usually around 1-2 minutse)even at the dead of night. same on console of all things.so the game isnt dead yet, but they really need to hurry up and fix the problems and characters that people constantly talk about for months. its could be a decent game but dev the shitty support really doesnt help. i still play 5 hours a day though

true, didn't consider that. Boosting numbers to look better for supporters and others

Instead of you guys not shutting the fuck up about overwatch you started to not shut the fuck up about fortnight thats what happened. People still play like every shooter ever.

Yes. There are two main reasons people get banned, they had too much fun or they were too good.

Overpowered supports, underpowered main tanks. Developers continue to further break both. There isn't much else to say.

I swear OWL hires paid actors for the crowd. Who the fuck cries for the players after a match?

Hey Yea Forums, wanna hear a joke?
Competitive Overwatch

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it didnt Yea Forums just has a hate boner for anything with a modicum of success. not to say that it isnt in a bad state though because it is

They added a bunch of faggots to a mediocre game. This was enough reason to leave overwatch

i got a better one. competitive anything not fighting games

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>overnight
It was a long agony.

I keep getting matched up with the same people. Dead for sure

>competitive fighting games
>get 1 hit on the opponent
>game allows you to continuously attack until you remove 1/3 of his health because "combo"

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You're like a little baby
Watch this

Competitive TF2

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legit I had never watched the damn thing until last sunday I saw it on TV.

I was taken aback that somehow Blizzard had struck a deal with Disney or someshit and they were showing overwatch league along with random internet shorts (like Lore in 60seconds).

I felt so nostalgic for G4 after that.
game was kinda boring though. Each side just had like 3 tanks and they poked at each other then they would suddenly drop like 5 ults at once and one team would just get wiped instantly. Each teamcomp was the same too.

Zayra,Reinhardt and D.VA and like the Monk robo dude with the AOE invul ult to cancer out the Zarya+D.Va self destruct wombo combo. Why does Overwatch have so many tanks and healers?

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Why are only white characters gay in this game?

Competitive PUBG
Competitive Fortnite
Competitive Apex Legends

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It was doomed from the start when it had things like ults and the ability to resurrect players. Shifting the game to be more competitive oriented was just the final nail in the coffin

That could never be a thing as far as I knwo, you almost never see competitive highlander, and people comment that it's because 18 players are too much for comp. There could never be a competitive game that needs 100 players, it's simply too much, right?

It's still a fun game to mess around with, especially FFA, but I doubt I'd play it consistently without some major changes.

Literally killed their own casual arcade shooter, what retards.

is overwatch any fun if you dont have any friends to play with?

Depends on what you enjoy out of solo play. Carrying your team fo example is a lot harder so victory may not come smoothly if your team is shit/isn't willing to compromise on roles.

the only fun you can have solo is ruining comp games

>log in to get the weekly arcade loot boxes (no idea why I even still bother)
>wait time for a game: 5 minutes AT MINIMUM
I mostly blame the devs who ignore all feedback and the idiotic matchmaking (no, blizzard, it's not a good idea to actively try to force 50% winrate)

also, I'd expect plenty of people got tired of the inane autobans based on nothing but the sheer number of reports against you

>game was kinda boring though. Each side just had like 3 tanks and they poked at each other then they would suddenly drop like 5 ults at once
you can blame healers for that sadly. anas grenade boosts the effect of healing so lucio can passive heal better to get his ult while zenyatta puts damage orbs on the enemy to get his ult. this basically means nothing can die due to constant healing at all times
>Why does Overwatch have so many tanks
they dont really.at least compared to DPS.

yeah theres a handful of characters that are fun and dont need a team to exactly be effective like mei, winston, and junkrat to name a few

People grew tired of BS new characters that are too easy and rewarding for retards while not having depth to peek pro interest combined with other games (fortnite and apex) sucking away the hypebeasts and 12yos. Overwatch had potential if blizzard actually bothered making a good game with good mechanics instead if a money making platform to milk liberals and waifufags

I'm sure lots of gay people play it, that's all that matters in 2019

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So Overwatch has a lot of merch, why don't they give away lootbox codes? Is it because they'd be too easy to crack? I went to the local mall yesterday and they actually have a Loot Box shaped cookie jar.

I wouldn't be surprised if they do viewbot. It's not hard and there's so much on the line if viewership isn't high. Hell RedBull were exposed viewbotting some fighting game event a couple months ago.

the shocker is that no one plays like this outside of Grand masters and top 500 (2 highest ranks) every game in diamond and plat has different heroes. this could be fix by Buffing dps over all or nerfing healing over all

If you are a one trick you should get fucked in the ass you literal garbage if you play a hero that according to the current situation (map,team comp) isn't doing well at all and are not switching then you should kill yourself it's simple as that if you wanna go comp you better be ready to give it your all to win

yeah.
I dont even play the game but one of the things I noticed was how many "hybrid healer" characters had healing built in.

>Soldier 76 little medic bay ability
>Anna
>Lucio
>Moira
>Bastion self repair
>Mei icecube
>Bridgette healkit
>now Baptiste is also coming out as like a healer support

whats with this obnoxious focus on healing? in TF2 there was only one medic class but in this game every other person is always full healing after taking a single shot. Compound that with like 5 tanks and holy shit the game does not look fun to play.

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No, i didnt have friends who played it and I regret it. Team making is shit and unless you have competent or forgiving teammates the match is bound to end in a toxic spiral. The only way i can recommend this game is if you have 2 or more friends to play with and even then i cant endorse the shit mechanics

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It catered heavily to being a "hugbox" that focuses on allowing all skill levels (read: player skill isn't rewarded at all) to enjoy being part of a team. That means the basic strategy involved involves little more than picking the right team composition. So it pretty much died out that summer after launch. And now with a big shift toward BR, it's basically on life support.

seething blizzcuck

this exactly. ive had (and still do have) more fun with overwatch than almost every other shooter and battle royale released in the last decade. its honestly fucking crazy that blizzard absolutely threw away something that had the potential to be big, but maybe if the overwatch move does decent theyll realize

>Competitive PUBG
I watched that invitational esport event or whatever when pubg was peaking, 20 teams of 4 players
It was a clusterfuck to follow and absolutely boring, that's when I became convinced BR have no future with e-sport. It's quite literally a genre made for and only for streaming.

indeed

They should not have tried so fucking hard to make this meme game competitive. It was best as a fun casual shooter that was competitive enough where you want to try and win, but it wasn't a big deal and you could pick whichever hero you felt like playing as. Once everyone tried to take it serious and Bliss pushed the esports further, it was ruined.

When it first came out, everyone was chill and had fun without making it serious business.

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The weirdest thing to me was finding out the game as an esport gives points for kills, something not reflected in the game itself anywhere.

i think its because when the game first launched there where only 3 healer (mercy. lucio, and zen 150hp) and they were way easier to kill and there was no healer for every situation. blizzard probably saw this as a bad thing and starrted adding more durable healers

And now we have moira which is unkillable and can 1v1 almost the entire roster

also doesnt help that her range is broken (can hit pharah while flying) and her damage orbs just fuck over people

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Apex Legends provided a similar experience only free and fun

Overwatch looks and feels great on the surface, but is shallow as a puddle. Anyone with triple digit IQ will be bored within a few months.

imagine him prolapsing your asshole

i genuinely like the game but it pisses me off that they choose to constantly neglect it and ignore valid feedback that actually can help the game.
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maybe its because i come from fighting games (which usually have 3000 players) but the game definitely feels alive. i usually find matyches quick and rarely with 1 or 2 of the people from my last match

It is alive, Yea Forums is just the delusional type that thinks just because they don't like something makes whatever they believe fact.

Choke point: the game. Can't outplay, outdps, out anything by yourself. Competitive scene is a pathetic joke as well.
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IDK what they're thinking, but they punish you for having more friends and teaming up.
>Lose more ELO the more people you have
>Win less ELO the more people you have
>Guaranteed to V.S stacks the more people you have
Now they've fucked around with the meta so much GOATS (trip tank trip supp) is the only strat you see played at higher levels. it's safe. it's OP. and it's repetitive as shit.

>What is blocking?

*inhales*

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>richard lewis
didnt he get laughed out of the FGC for being a jackass and got really salty about it?

Unironically Brigitte + Fortnite

They managed to make the easiest character in the game the most effective. You can actually track the player decline to her release.

more importantly: what happened to Overwatch SFM? There used to be new shit every week.

They didn't give players what they wanted and didn't release stuff often/fast enough.

Didn't continue with new events and just rehashed the old ones each year.

Everyone wanted a more of a story to flesh out this interesting world they created but Blizz doesn't seem to have any interest in that.

Balance problems weren't being fixed quickly enough or effectively enough. Certain characters have been unplayable tier since beta without any effective changes.

>out of the FGC
out of rkappa

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it didn't though did it?

esports

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nope. its like said, but there are problems that need fixing NOW before the fans who actually like the game give up on it. like me

You're wrong tho but I respect your opinion

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